Crayfish (QGIS plugin)

The Crayfish Plugin for QGIS aspires to be a complete set of pre and post-processing tools for hydraulic modellers using TUFLOW, BASEMENT, AnuGA, ISIS 2D and other packages.

Using Crayfish

For instructions of how to install and use Crayfish, please refer to the Crayfish resources page on our website.

Installing Crayfish on Linux

For installing Crayfish on Linux you need:

• development environment and a compiler installed
• Qt4 and development tools
• HDF5 library (for XMDF format)
• NetCDF library (for AnuGA SWW format)
• GDAL library

On Debian/Ubuntu you need to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev qt4-qmake libgdal-dev libhdf5-dev libnetcdf-dev libproj-dev git

If all this packages are installed you can clone the crayfish plugin using the command:

git clone https://github.com/lutraconsulting/qgis-crayfish-plugin.git

After cloning the source you should run the installation script which compiles and installs everything to user's QGIS python plugin directory (~/.qgis2/python/plugins/crayfish):

cd qgis-crayfish-plugin
./install.py

Now restart QGIS and you are able to use crayfish plugin on your Linux Computer.

Installing Crayfish on Windows

For 32-bit version:

• Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
• Install OSGeo4W (32bit) to C:\OSGeo4W
• Run scripts\crayfish32.bat to build the crayfish DLL

For 64-bit version:

• Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
• Install OSGeo4W (64bit) to C:\OSGeo4W64
• Run scripts\crayfish64.bat to build the crayfish DLL